Irish personal finance provider Permanent TSB has signed up to use Experian’s banking categorisation technology to improve its customer lending journeys.

When a customer applies for a loan, Experian’s Categorisation as a Service (CaaS) automatically categorises the customer’s income and expenditure to allow lenders to quickly understand a person’s financial situation, ensure a robust lending decision and enhance the speed to a decision in the customer journey.

IRIS Software Group (IRIS), one of the UK’s largest software companies, is today announcing it has acquired Senta, the cloud-based practice management software for accountants and bookkeepers.

Founded in 2014, Senta is dedicated to making accountancy practices more profitable and scalable with a ‘customer-first’ approach. The software will be integrated into IRIS Elements, the dynamic SaaS platform designed by customers that allows them to move to the cloud at their own pace.

Concourse Labs, the leader in automated cloud governance, risk management and security, released its Financial Services governance solution, providing banks and other financial services firms with the complete set of out-of-the-box policies and automation required for governance, security and compliance as they digitize and adopt cloud computing technologies. Concourse provides a complete set of cloud policies and controls, enabling financial service institutions to understand and manage their risk, protect their assets and data, and prove they are effect

Duco, the global provider of cloud-based data integrity and reconciliation services, today announced that Philippe Buron has joined the company as Chief Product Officer, taking overall responsibility for the onward evolution, delivery and positioning of Duco’s Software as a Service products. Philippe joins from HSBC where he was Interim CIO of Digital Retail and Wealth.

Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in private cloud, hybrid and multicloud computing, today announced the financial services industry findings of its third annual Enterprise Cloud Index Report, measuring organisations’ plans for adopting private, hybrid and public clouds.

Payments industry organisations have all been affected by unprecedented levels of change. New regulations, competitors and technologies, and the expectations of a new generation of tech-savvycustomers, are making more demands on technology teams than ever before.

A collective interest has been sparked around Bitcoin over the past decade.  Since its inception, Bitcoin has seen dramatic highs followed by a few crashes, but overall it has consistently retained a significant portion of its gains.

Fenergo, the leading provider of digital transformation, customer journey and investor lifecycle management solutions, has been selected by a top five global investment management firm with $2 trillion AUM.

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, today launches its China All-In-One solution from Ingenico, which unifies its suite of Chinese payment solutions, including AliPay, WeChat Pay, and UnionPay, into one package. Ingenico has been part of Worldline since October of 2020 and offers merchants smart, trusted and secure solutions to empower commerce.